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Plan (Your) Obsolescence – Archive (as) Art

This article is a co-creation by Autumn Hand, Juliana Paiva, Kendall Grady and Mario Gesteira. Archive (An Informal Introduction) Let’s blow the dust and grime off the archive. Let’s get to the art of this matter too. Whether archive...

By Juliana Paiva on 03/13/12 2

Anne Mangen on the Technologies and Haptics of Reading

[This post was originally published on The Unbound Book Conference Blog) ‘The Ascent of E-readers‘, the third session of the day, kicked off with Anne Mangen, Ph.D., an Associate professor in literacy and reading research and a reading specialist at The...

By Ekaterina Yudin on 05/22/11 1

Sciencemappr: Trying to unleash the hypertextual potential of the Web

Last week I already pointed out the amazing significance and potential of the Internet to organize, structure and index all knowledge gathered across the globe. Rather than an indirect library of indexes and references, the web is equipped with...

By Frank Molenaar on 05/04/11 Comments Off

Scientific referencing and hypertext: The necessity of a visual overview

This entry is meant as an introduction to the tool my group and I are developing for our Datavisualisation class. We will be trying to geographically map the rise and diffusion of different research fields over time. The reason...

By Frank Molenaar on 04/20/11 1

From Tweet to Hypertextual Consciousness?

One might claim that Twitter is just another boring conversational platform not very different from any other kind of social network site, where you can share your cuts-ups of personal information instantly with your friends. But in a social-humanistic...

By Susana Zaragoza on 10/04/09 2

WEX Machine – W139

The WEX Machine, The W139 EXtender, is a mirroring portal extending the W to the WebWebWeb. It is a new website and permanent installation for W139, an Amsterdam-based exhibition and production space for contemporary art, by Roel Wouters and...

By Erik Borra on 06/06/09 1

Nietzsche on hypertext

This week’s assignment made us compare new media issues to Nietzsche quotes. I came across the following quote: This quote immediately triggered the post-modern idea of differance, that all meaning gets postponed and that one will never get to...

By Maarten van Sprang on 10/08/07 Comments Off